Hope Lutheran Church

Where were you when God first encountered you?  How did it feel?  What was the experience like?  What were you left with after it happened?
No encounter with God leaves us the way we were before the encounter and over the next month we’ll take time make connections between our encounters with God and worship at [...]

Beginning Sunday, June 6, we will shift to our summer schedule for worship. Worship will begin at 9:30 AM and there will not be Sunday School until after Labor Day. We hope you’ll join us this summer as we continue to explore what it means to be faithful disciples of Jesus.
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We’re often encountered by the question, Where have you found hope?
Some of us find hope for a better life in a new job or in our educations.  Others of us find some glimmer of hope in our childrens’ eyes or their curiousity that leads them to question so much of what we take for granted. [...]

Story has great meaning in our lives.  So it is no wonder Jesus used stories (parables) often when teaching.
We hope you’ll join us this Wednesday evening, August 5, at 7:00 PM at Panera Bread in Waldorf (map).  We’ll take a look at some of those very stories, parables, Jesus told as well as a few [...]

The past three days have been very, very full days for us.  It has been a challenge to even find a spare moment of time for sleep let alone to write a blog post detailing what is going on here in New Orleans.  But tonight I’ve got some time (although again, not much) so I [...]

Want to see what we’ve been up to for the past two days, here are two more photo albums, one for each day.
As the Gathering is very fast paced and we don’t often get down time, I will have to post captions later.  But please enjoy the pictures while you wait.

Jesus, Justice, Jazz - Day [...]

It is likely that over 13,000 people will die of hunger today.  963 million people across the world are hungry. Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes, that’s one child every five seconds. (Statistics provided by Bread - http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/hunger-facts-international.html)
With all this in mind and the ever growing need for hunger awareness and action due to [...]

Update: Thank you so much to all who volunteered and donated.  We exceeded our goal of 1000 cans and collected 1291 cans of food for the Oxon Hill Food Bank!  Because of you, there is more food available for people in our community.
If you wish to donate again or for the first time, we continually [...]